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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures:Evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expectedto be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompetingexplanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of boardmonitoring is hidden in stock price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861853
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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Baktash, Mehrzad; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349209
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Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance : Is There an Association?
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011
Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122683
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A Theory of Expert Leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105998
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Individual Determinants of Work Attendance : Evidence on the Role of Personality
Störmer, Susi - 2010
We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using representative data for Germany. In particular, the 2005 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel provides detailed information on socio-economic background characteristics along with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143659
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures : Evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, Mirjam - 2021
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316805
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Germany's Next Top Manager : Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
Fietze, Simon - 2010
are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139061
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca - 2012
The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108264
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254888
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Gender Promotion Gaps : Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala - 2020
characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843169